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- Hey, my friends, it's Easter time again,
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and I think it's a time when we do a lot of reflecting.
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And the fact that it's in spring
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when everything is coming back to life,
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you know, after a cold, hard winter,
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you just, the word rebirth comes to my mind.
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And we all have our beliefs, our different beliefs.
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Beliefs, I happen to be a Baptist,
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naturally, coming from southwest Georgia.
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Most of us were either Baptist or Methodist.
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And we've been going through pictures for my new cookbook,
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because I told you it's gonna be, hopefully,
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a lot of pictures that y'all have never seen
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from my childhood on up to my grandchildren.
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So this is the four of us.
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I wrote our name, Paula, Jimmy, Jamie, and Bobby Dean,
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(chuckles) like I might forget.
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We were on our way to church
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and somehow we were lucky enough to get a picture.
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You know, back when I was raising my boys, y'all,
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there was no such thing as a telephone camera.
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So I have very, very few pictures
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of my children when they were little.
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And this is Bobby and his daddy
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with his Easter basket
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that I'm sure Aunt Peggy had helped me put together,
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because this was probably about the time
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she was teaching me how.
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Now I've taken them little further,
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but that's how they looked
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if you went to the Toy House there in Albany,
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and bought one of the Toy House's baskets.
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And this is Jamie and little Kari.
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She's in her Easter bonnet.
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And, you know, I always felt
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like Jamie and Kari looked more alike
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than any of the rest of the family.
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She had his coloring.
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She didn't have his dimples,
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but she was one beautiful, little girl.
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And when she was good, she was very good.
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She was like the little girl with a curl.
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And when she was bad, she was horrid. (laughs)
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I don't know why I don't have one of Jamie,
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but this is Bobby and the Easter Bunny.
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Oh, sometimes I would love to just blink them back,
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you know, just for maybe a half a day.
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But, so I'm getting ready to do Easter baskets
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for my grandchildren, and that's always fun.
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and every one of 'em come here
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and I usually put 'em out on the front porch
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because they gonna make a mess.
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Grass is going everywhere and paper's going everywhere.
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And I should have some pictures from last Easter somewhere.
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I know Ashley took a lot, so I'll have to ask her
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so I can just compare them last year to this year.
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So I hope this message finds y'all in a very peaceful place.
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And, you know, contentment is very important.
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It's a very important word in my life, accepting things.
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You know, it all goes back to that serenity prayer, y'all.
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"God, grant me the serenity
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to accept the things I cannot change,
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the courage to change the things that I can,
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and please God, give me the wisdom
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to know the difference between those two."
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And that prayer, I could say that every day.
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And it applies to me, and I know so many other people.
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But this Easter, I hope that it finds y'all
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all in a happy, good, peaceful, content way.
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love and best dishes to all of y'all this Easter.
